A Fall River Superior Court Judge on Monday set a new bail of $150,000 for Patrick Doyle — the Taunton High School teacher accused of having sex with two 14-year-old female students.

By doing so he rejected the prosecution’s argument that Doyle should be held without bail.

Assistant District Attorney Casey Smith, during the dangerousness hearing at Monday’s arraignment, described the 33-year-old eighth-grade social studies teacher as “inherently dangerous” to underage children.

Smith also noted that his previously clean record notwithstanding, Doyle faces a minimum 10 years in prison if convicted of a single count of aggravated statutory rape.

She said Doyle’s behavior exhibited “an element of constructive force” and “close intimate contact” that satisfies the legal threshold of the state’s Section 58A dangerousness rule — a statute by which a judge can hold a defendant for up to 90 days without bail.

And although he referred to the charges against Doyle as “extraordinarily serious,” Justice Thomas McGuire ruled they did not qualify as predicate offenses for enforcing the statute.

Doyle was arrested three weeks ago for allegedly driving one of his 14-year-old students to his Seekonk house where prosecutors say the two smoked marijuana and had sex three times.

He was released after his family posted the $100,000 bail set by Taunton District Court Judge Francis Marini.

Doyle, however, within a week of his release was ordered held without bail after Taunton police detectives presented evidence that he and another 14-year-old engaged in a sexual act in an empty classroom.

The following day a grand jury determined there was probable cause for the case to be tried in superior court.

Smith also reminded the court that Doyle is accused of cell-phone “sexting” — sending sexually suggestive messages to the girls and a photo of his penis to one of his alleged victims, the latter of whom also allegedly sent him nude photos of herself.

Doyle is charged with four counts of aggravated statutory rape, five counts of enticing a child under 16, two counts of distributing obscene material and one count of reckless endangerment of a child.

The four counts of rape include the classroom encounter, where Smith said he penetrated the girl’s vagina with his finger.

She also told the judge that “several” friends and acquaintances of the victims had seen the cell-phone images and messages.

Taunton police initially were contacted by school officials, who they say became concerned about sexting activity after a third female student confided that Doyle had sent her messages; the girl also claimed he would often act irrationally during class.

Doyle’s lawyer, Lefteris Travayiakis, asked that bail be set at $50,000.

Travayiakas criticized the Bristol County DA’s office handling of the case as “grossly misleading.”

Page 2 of 2 - “There is no persuasive argument,” he said of the attempt to hold his client without bail.

Travayiakas accused the prosecution of previously withholding information it already possessed regarding a second victim as a “back-pocket” ploy to generate “media play.”

He described Doyle as “an educated man with extensive teaching experience” and “strong community roots” who comes from “a very large family.”

Travayiakas said Doyle doesn’t object to bail conditions for wearing a GPS monitoring anklet and that he be prohibited from being alone with a child as young as 16.

But he asked the judge that his client be allowed to visit with his girlfriend’s 10- to 11-year-old daughter, a girl whom Doyle allegedly helped raise since the age of about five.

McGuire consented, but stipulated there be no unsupervised contact and that an adult must be present “at all times.”

During his plea for leniency, Travayiakas noted that Doyle has been active in the Bobby Doyle Foundation, named for his late father who is remembered as a world-class marathon runner.

The foundation in 2009 contributed money to Taunton’s Benjamin Friedman Middle School. The younger Doyle taught there before transferring to Taunton High.

Doyle has shown no outward emotion during his court appearances, and Monday was no exception. His attentive countenance never wavered.